'Cosyn to the Dede': The 'Canterbury Tales' and the Platonic Tradition in Medieval Rhetoric

Author / Editor
Hirshberg, Jeffrey Alan.

Title
'Cosyn to the Dede': The 'Canterbury Tales' and the Platonic Tradition in Medieval Rhetoric

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 6741A-42A.

Description
Chaucer stands firmly in the tradition of "Phaedrus" and "Timaeus" by virtue of the "imagistic" and figural view of reality he presents in CT. References to Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy" further emphasize the Platonic approach to rhetoric. In CT the words "pleynly" spoken are but signs to Truth.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.